Neville Vincent GortonBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 1969, pg 655 (1 March 1888 – 30 November 1955) was an Anglican cleric who served as the fourth bishop of the restored see of Coventry"The Times", Friday, 13 November 1942; p. 7; Issue 49392; col C Ecclesiastical News New Bishop of Coventry in the modern era.
Gorton was born on 1 March 1888, the son of Anglican Rev. Canon C. V. Gorton,Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain, Charles Roger Dod and Robert Phipps Dod, 1954, pg 60 and educated at Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner and Aubrey Moore student."Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Gorton was a career school-master who after taking holy orders spent 20 years at Sedbergh School, during which time he married Ethel Ingledew Daggett, with whom he had two sons (including the production designer Assheton Gorton) and one daughter"Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 rising to the rank of housemaster. He was then appointed head of Blundell's School where he was to remain until the call to face the challenges of a severely bombed diocese.
Gorto was an advocate of Christian Unity,"The Anglican Church and Christian Unity" Gorton, N. London, Longmans, 1948 and envisioned a "People’s cathedral".Article in Time Magazine He combined views - he opposed remarriage of divorced people in church with a more unconventional outlook shaped by his experience working with boys, which gave him a pragmatic view of "sin". Known for short, pithy sermon, he was regarded by contemporaries as an accomplished preacher.”Neville Gorton:Bishop of Coventry- Reminiscences by some of his friends" Moyle, F.W (Ed) London, SPCK, 1957 He died in office on 30 November 1955 aged 67.The Cathedral Church of St. Michael and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Coventry. Order of service for the burial of Neville Vincent Gorton ... Bishop of Coventry; Monday, 5 December 1955, at 12 noon.
Sir Basil Spence, the architect of the new Coventry Cathedral, considered Gorton to be a saint, writing "I have never met such a 'good' man, and one who had no sense of possessiveness whatsoever; he desired nothing except the things of the spirit."
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